Borza Tibor (szerk.): A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum évkönyve 1982 (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 1982)

Borza Tibor-Dr. Draveczky Balázs-Gundel Imre H. Szűcs Gitta-Dr. Horváth Iván-S. Nagy Anikó-Dr. Thoma Lászlóné: A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum gyűjteményei

consumers' and marketers' cooperatives. The emergency economy and food supply during the two world wars produced a large quantity of interesting documents and forms. Business administration, in its strict sense, is represented by a group of bookkeeping material. To these may be added bills, accounts, notes, business letters and postcards, forming a colourful collection. Pricelists, trade-lists, catalogues seem to constitute one of the most interesting groups. With their help, we may trace the supply of commodities in their successive course in the various branches of industry. To the group of commercial handbooks may be added money and measures, tables, manuals of commodity descriptions. Among documents, such as trade-bills, many jubilee prints survive. A special group comprises banking, credit, exchange, customs and insurance documents. Commercial publicity publications are often regarded as the clear reflections of business life as a whole. To this group belong early printed sheets, newspaper advertisments. Posters can be very colourful with pictures and printed captions. A collection of an approximately 12,000 piece invoicepile is a remarkable storehouse of the Hungarian history of publicity. Ad hoc papers, advertismertt pictures, advertisment stamps, labels, wrapping paper and business presents have always been specific tools of commercial advertising. The history of commercial archives also contains manuscript material (essays, biographies, data-accounts, etc.). (Gitta H. Szűcs) COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS Commercial photographic collections contain documentary material belonging to the order of the museum and also photographs which serve as important sources. These are records in pictures of contemporary shops, department stores, exhibitions, fairs and important events and scenes in the life of the merchant population. There survive many photos to present the evolution of functional instruction in trade and commerce. Our research is considerably promoted through the postcard collection which comprises over 1500 pieces. Through their subsidiary character, they are important as reproductions of contemporary journalism and of the objects and documents in other museums which are connected with the history of commerce. (Anikó S. Nagy) THE REFERENCE LIBRARY OF COMMERCIAL COLLECTIONS The field of research for collection in our reference library extends to material in the history of trade, reflecting cognate institutions - flourishing as the result of capitalist development - such as the tax movement, exchange, banking, credit policies and the cooperative movements. Specialisation in trade and the organization of its administration by means of statutes, rules and laws also constitutes a considerable amount of library material. This period is characterized by the emergence and specialization of commercial vocational instruction which, from our point of view, is equal with a further collection of contemporary commercio-educational books, and textbooks in the history of instruction and other subsidiary subjects. The library service for the propagation of knowledge and public education, considerably enlarged the material at our disposal. (Mrs Éva Thoma) 250